Ukweli

Today we got to sleep in a little, which was very nice for all of us because of how early we had to be at the hospital yesterday! When we...

Today we woke up early to meet with the medical superintendent of Makeni Regional Hospital. We started the conversation telling him about...

Today we set out early to visit Kalangba, a much more rural clinic than the ones we have previously visited. We first spoke to a nurse in...

Today we visited Rokonta community health clinic and spoke to a CHO and 3 CHWs. The CHO has been working at the clinic for the past 6...

Today we walked to three class A pharmacies by the main Makeni market to discuss how they screen and refer women. The first pharmacy we...

Today we visited a community health post (CHP) in Doris. We met with a nurse in charge and 2 CHWs. The nurse in charge had been working...

Today was an extremely busy day. We set out early for Freetown, waking up at 6:30. The first stop was to Barefoot Women, which is an...

Today we visited Makarie CHP to talk to CHWs and nurses in charge. One of the CHWs had been working since 2012, and the other two since...

Today we first drove to Tambaima to visit a Community Health Clinic (CHC). We met with 4 CHWs who have been working since 2012 and a peer...

Today we drove about an hour to Rokulla, a very rural area. Most of the roads there were not paved and therefore took us a lot longer to...

Today we drove to a beautiful waterfall on our day off. It was national cleaning day in Sierra Leone which means that everyone has to...

Today we traveled to Kambai to meet up with 115 CHWs who were gathering to receive their stipend and learn proper breastfeeding...

Today we first met with the head of the PHUs of Kambai. His name is Abdul K. Kamara, and have gave us a good amount of insight on to how...

This morning we finalized and printed out The CHW Ukweli job responsibilities sheets. We planned on giving these sheets to CHWs and other...

The first two days in Sierra Leone we worked in World Hope International's conference room developing a game plan for our venture and...

VentureWell Conference: Idea to IMPACT Day 1: August 26th We sent a team of three to a conference held by one of our stakeholders,...

Christian Pardo, Natalee Castillo and Cassidy Drost traveled to MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) for three days to attend VentureWell E2...

May 27, 2016 | Summer 2016 Our first study in Sierra Leone involved identifying the current pathways individuals take to screen for,...